WW International Inc (NASDAQ: WW) Gains 2.27% And Its 10.38% Stock Volatility Is Bewildering

WW International Inc (NASDAQ:WW) does about 6.21M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 4313161 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 142.56M USD. Its current market price is $1.80, marking an increase of 2.27% compared to the previous close of $1.76. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $13.31 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $1.56.

WW International Inc (WW) has a 20-day trading average at $1.8932 and the current price is -86.47% off the 52-week high compared with 15.38% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $2.9350 and its 200-day simple moving average is $7.1711. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 10.38%, which increases to 13.69% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 38.01 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $6.58, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 72.64% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 03, 2024 when Barclays initiated the stock to “Underweight” and issued a price target of $8. Craig Hallum upgraded its price target at $4-$10.

WW International Inc (WW) stock is up 8.43% over the week and -23.40% over the past month. Its price is -79.43% year-to-date and -72.27% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 72.64 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -15.62%. The forward price to earnings ratio is 6.24. The beta has a value of 1.78. Price to sales ratio is 0.16.